Medford mail tribune., May 12, 1963, Image 51

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TO GIVE TO DAD, fo delight him on
New York and . Hartford, Conn.,
as boardinghouses. "When I'm not
there," she says, "it's open house
to any of my friends who need a
place to stay."
Although Katie's California
house was built for John Barry
more, it reflects the informality
and casualness of her life. The
walls are bare except for travel
posters; most of the furniture is
functional, some of it homemade.
The studiolike room where I in
terviewed her contained a huge
gas heater which was trying vain
ly to combat the cold draft pour
ing in through open windows and
doors. Scattered about the room
were a sculpture, an easel, brushes,
a few paintings (Katie refused
to point out which ones she had
done), a parcheesi game, a picture
of George Bernard Shaw, some
books, including Bette Davis'
"The Lonely Life," and a tray with
Scotch, soda water, and glasses
(mostly for guests; Katie prefers
milk eight glasses a day) .
HER Outfit matched the setting.
She wore loose beige pants, a
black knit pull-over sweater, brown
buckled Oxfords, and white socks.
Her reddish-brown hair was pulled
back tightly in a tousled bun. She
wore no make-up, and the freckles
which are her trade-mark were as
obvious as always. "I was never
interested in clothes," she said,
"and I can't stand wasting time
fixing my hair or nails."-
Katie's boyish mannerisms and
attire date back to her child
hood in Hartford. "I used to cut
my hair in a close crop and call
myself Jimmy," she recalled. "This
solved the problem of being ac
cepted by boys. To tell you the
truth, I looked more like a boy
than my brothers and I was
tough! I used to get into fights
with boys and usually I won."
Katharine was the second oldest
of six children. When her older
brother died in an accident, she
took his place and remained close
to her father all his life. He died
only a few months ago at 81
shortly after he and Redtop, as he
called her, had taken a trip to the
Middle East during which they
used every means of transporta
tion from jeeps and boats to
horses and camels.
It is rather surprising that
Katie didn't follow her father's
footsteps into medicine. "He was
a neurosurgeon, and I watched
him operate many times," she
told me. "It didn't bother me at
all; I rather enjoyed it. When I
went to Bryn Mawr, I had hoped
to study medicine, but then I said
to myself, 'Oh, well, women sur
geons who's going to have any
confidence in them?' There was so
much prejudice against profes
sional women in this country that
I gave up the idea and decided to
get my B.A. instead."
Her decision is surprising con
sidering that her mother was a
famous champion of feminist
causes. "She was always involved
in rallies and parades, and I used
to go with her," Katharine recalls.
Once Katie talked herself out of
medicine, becoming an actress was
a logical step; she had always
loved the movies. "I would shovel
more snow than any boy in the
neighborhood to get money to go
to the movies. In the summer I
cut lawns and did other odd jobs
to buy movie magazines. I could
name every actor and actress and
every film ever made."
Katharine made her Broadway
debut in "The Warrior's Hus
band," which led to her being"
signed for her first film, "Bill
of Divorcement," opposite John
Barrymore. With the release of
this film and "Morning Glory,"
for which she won the Academy
Award as Best Actress of 1933,
her career went into high gear.
But although she has been in
films for more than 30 years,
she has appeared in fewer than
30 pictures. "I do very few things,
but I pick parts with extra care,"
she explained. "If you have a very
good role, you generally get nomi
nated for an award."
Her selections have resulted in
some of the finest performances
in movie history in "Little Wom
en," "The Philadelphia Story,"
"Keeper of the Flame," "The Af
rican Queen," "Summertime," and
"The Rainmaker."
With a comparatively light work
load and no husband or children
to occupy her time, it would seem
' hers is a lonely life. But Katha
rine insists not. "I have always
been very close to my family,
much more so than the average
person." That's why she was so
hard hit when her mother died in
1953, and even more so when her
father died a few months ago.
"Dad and I were almost insep
arable girls are usually closer to
their fathers. I helped raise my
brothers and sisters, and they
were like my own children. And
now their 16 children are like my
grandchildren. Me lonely? For
goodness' sake, no!"
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